This special three-book bundle collects sage advice and guidance for today’s parent struggling to keep up in a rapidly-changing world. Two titles by Michael Reist discuss education; school is our children’s second home. They will spend more time there than anywhere else in their formative years. We all need to talk honestly about the nature of this environment. <i>What Every Parent Should Know About School</i> is an honest, positive, thought-provoking look at what schools are today and what they could be in the future. <i>Raising Boys in a New Kind of World</i> is a passionate call for greater empathy. The more we know about boys, the more realistic our expectations of them will be.<p> Combining the expertise of its author – a celebrated expert in parent-infant mental health and mother of two – with the latest findings in gene-by-environment interactions, epigenetics, behavioural science, and attachment theory, <i>Scientific Parenting</i> describes how children’s genes determine their sensitivity to good or bad parenting, how environmental cues can switch critical genes on or off, and how addictive tendencies and mental health problems can become hardwired into the human brain.</p> <p><b>Includes</b> </p> <ul> <li><i>Raising Boys in a New Kind of World</i></li> <li><i>Scientific Parenting</i></li> <li><i>What Every Parent Should Know About School</i></li> </ul>
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Michael Reist. Family and Parenting 3-Book Bundle
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Section 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Section 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Section 3
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Conclusions
Chapter 11
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Contents
Acknowledgements
Who Should Read This Book?
How to Read This Book
The Lesson Plan
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14
The Test at the End
Raising Boys in a New Kind of World
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART ONE
A WORLD OF CHANGE
THE WORLD OF SCHOOL
PART TWO
THE UNIQUE NATURE OF BOYS
UNDERSTANDING NORMAL. BOY. BEHAVIOUR
ADD OR NORMAL BOY BEHAVIOUR?
PRACTICAL STRATEGIES THAT WORK WITH ALL BOYS
BOYS, READING, AND WRITING
THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF BOYS
BOYS AND SPORTS
BULLYING
PART THREE
THE WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES
THE WORLD OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
THE WORLD OF MOVIES AND TELEVISION
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE ELECTRONIC WORLD
PART FOUR
PARENTING IN A NEW KIND OF WORLD
THE WILL TO POWER
ANGER
COMMUNICATION
SELF-ESTEEM
DISCIPLINE
PART FIVE
WHAT. MEDIA TEACHES. ABOUT. CHARACTER
WHAT IS CHARACTER?
CAN. CHARACTER. BE. TAUGHT?
THE NATURE OF CHARACTER
ON BEING A “GOOD PARENT”
ADVICE TO FATHERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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I’ve always been fascinated by parenting, how it works and, perhaps even more so, how it doesn’t. I remember as a child listening in on my parents’ conversations with family and friends, gathering gossip on the problems festering beneath the surface of my neighbourhood. So-and-so’s an alcoholic. So-and-so can’t control her weight. So-and-so dropped out of school. So-and-so has “some problems upstairs.” The problems upstairs intrigued me most of all. It was a mysterious, vaguely menacing term, hinting at something deeper and more complex than drinking or obesity or illness — something in which all those other problems were hopelessly entangled.
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Having constructed a new framework, Kaufman reassessed the data. Keep in mind, every child participating in this leg of the study experienced maltreatment at home. Living in houses fraught with anxiety, anger, and pain, it’s difficult to imagine that a kind word from a grandparent or uncle or extra attention from a particularly dedicated teacher could make much difference to how they behaved. Yet it did.
The results of Kaufman’s high support/low support study and her maltreated/non-maltreated study possess an eerie symmetry. In each experiment, the effects of 5-HTT and BDNF genotype are identical, with high support children filling in for the non-maltreated group. High support children were as impervious to genetic influence as non-maltreated children in spite of the fact that they had been abused. Their depression scores were on the whole higher, but they displayed none of the genetic volatility characteristic of abused children. Those with the s/s 5-HTT and val/met BDNF alleles — the devastating one-two punch of genetic oversensitivity — were no more depressed than children with the protective l/l and val/val alleles. The presence of stable, supportive adults in their lives mitigated the effects of an abusive home life, particularly among those who, because of an accident of genetics, would have been most affected.
